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The surname Colclough

An English place surname, carried by 1,141 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C424

Colclough: #22,530 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Colclough #22,530, 1,141 people Colclough: #22,530 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Colclough #22,530, 1,141 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Colclough is more common than 86.1% of them.

Origin

English origin

English habitational surname, probably named with the Old English byname Cola + clōh (“ravine”).

Colclough is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,141 people named Colclough in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 270,592 Americans. That is up 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,063.

#22,530
rank among US surnames
1,141
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+7.3%
change since 2000 (was #22,570)

Who is named Colclough

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

49% of people named Colclough identified as Black (not Hispanic), 48% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as two or more races.

  • Black (not Hispanic) 49%
  • White (not Hispanic) 48%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Colclough

Colclough has the Soundex code C424, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C424.

Other English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Colclough come from?
English habitational surname, probably named with the Old English byname Cola + clōh (“ravine”).
How common is the surname Colclough?
1,141 people in the United States had the surname Colclough in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 270,592 Americans. It ranked 22,530th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Colclough?
In the 2010 Census, 49% of people named Colclough identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 48% as white (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Colclough?
Colclough is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Colclough getting more or less common?
More common. 1,063 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,141 in 2010, up 7.3%.